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The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Political Science examines the factors that help to explain the political decisions and behavior of individuals, leaders, and states. What motivates individuals to participate in elections? What factors influence their support for a particular individual or political party? What are the cognitive, motivational, emotional, and psychological processes that go into leaders' decisions regarding war and peace? Does biology playa role in political orientation? Integrating ideas from different fields, such as economics, psychology, and communications the work in the Handbook provides a deep view into the thinking processes and behavior of decision makers.

Protestants on Screen explores the Protestant contributions to American and European film from the silent era to the present day. The authors analyze how Protestant filmmakers, beliefs, theology, symbols, sensibilities, and cultural patterns have shaped the history of film.

Protestants on Screen explores the Protestant contributions to American and European film from the silent era to the present day. The authors analyze how Protestant filmmakers, beliefs, theology, symbols, sensibilities, and cultural patterns have shaped the history of film.

In a Bad State provides the first comprehensive history and theory of how the federal government has addressed subnational debt crises. Tracing the long history of public budgeting at the state and local level, David Schleicher argues that federal officials face a "trilemma" when a state or city nears default. But whether they demand state austerity, permit state defaults, or provide bailouts-and all have been tried-federal officials can only achieve two out of three goals, at best. Authoritative and accessible, this book is a guide to understanding the pressing problems that local, state, and federal officials currently face and the policy options they possess for responding.

This book explores the rich conceptual and empirical possibilities within current frameworks of interpersonal domains of personality and extends them beyond the current theories, using the interpersonal traits of dominance and nurturance as conceptual starting points. Through its examination of agency (the intrapersonal) and communion (the interpersonal), this book offers a framework for relationship and social scientists to delve into their own research oninterdependence processes.

For decades, countries have pursued nuclear weapons by taking many different paths toward or away from the bomb. Those paths have been difficult to predict because they are defined not by security or wealth, but by the decisions leaders make to accelerate or reverse their nuclear weapons programs. Nuclear decisions are made within a complex political information environment that affects how security concerns and the value of a nuclear weapons program are understood.By examining nine fascinating country case histories, this book elucidates the key factors that shape the decision-making environment.

When governments of countries involved in territorial or maritime disputes choose to pursue peaceful resolution, there is great uncertainty about whether they can resolve the disputes in their favor. Governments need to decide which path to take in peaceful resolution-bilateral negotiations, mediation, arbitration, or adjudication. The authors argue that two major factors can influence this decision-past experience with specific resolution methods and therelationship between domestic and international law for the countries involved in the disputes. Governments also need to reduce uncertainty about winning and losing by framing their claims in certain ways and shaping the procedures of the resolution process to garner more control with theprocess.

Part of the What Do I Do Now? Pain Medicine series, this timely volume presents clinical scenarios exploring headache medicine and treatments. Headache Medicine is a complex and constantly developing field, often relying on outdated and time-intensive textbooks. The purpose of this book is to educate readers on the diagnosis and management of commonly encountered headache disorders through brief discussion of relevant and specific cases.

Music as Ethics offers a comparative ethnography of four musical communities in Virginia: a monastery, an intentional community, the Richmond city jail, and the city of Richmond, VA. While music's relationship to ethical life differs between each community, ethnographic research suggests that music can serve as a means to a more ethical lifestyle.

Focusing on the little-known French East India Company, Company Politics explores corporate politics, financial scandals, and rival empires, shedding light on both the rise of European rule in India and the origins and economic consequences of the French Revolution.

An innovative contribution to East Asian and Chinese history of the medieval period, Northern Wei (386-534) brings to a new level the study of the little-known Northern Wei dynasty (386-534). Emerging from collapse of the Han empire, the founders of Northern Wei had come south from the grasslands of Inner Asia to conquer the rich farmlands of the Yellow River plains. With complex interactions of Chinese and Inner Asians, which evolved over centuries,Northern Wei laid the foundation for a new model for empire in East Asia, which in the seventh century would lead to the Tang.

This book offers a unique and original study of youth organizations in the cities of London, Toronto, and Vancouver that provide creative and cultural learning opportunities for socially marginalized young people. There is a history of building significant institutions in many cities around the world to create unusual social and educational opportunities for young people who are frequently at the margins of society. The book tells the stories of a number ofinstitutions bringing into the open extraordinary tales of social entrepreneurialism, innovative aesthetic, artistic practice, and dynamic progressive education and learning. Youthsites is both a cultural history of urban youth and social change and a timely celebration of extraordinary individuals at a timeof declining welfare provision.

Enriched with excerpts from real legal case studies in public health, Public Health Law in Practice provides public health students and practitioners with practical legal knowledge for the work of public health policymaking outside the classroom.

In Standardizing the World, Francesco Duina and Crina Viju-Miljusevic have gathered a group of leading experts to present an unprecedented assessment of the EU's efforts to standardize a wide array of economic, political, and social aspects of life through its trade agreements across the globe. Drawing on economic sociology and constructivist strands in international political economy, ten leading scholars from across the world offer as many chapters on EUagreements with all major trading partners and cover efforts in social and labor rights, the environment, investments, rule of law and anti-corruption, agriculture and food quality, services, public procurement, sustainable development, and more.

This edited volume explores the ethical issues involved with work in animal shelters. In the first half of the book, the contributors, in consultation with animal shelter staff, explore the ethical dilemmas that often arise in animal shelter work. The second half of the book investigates those dilemmas more deeply and identifies the moral issues that underlie them. This project was developed in conjunction with the Montreal SPCA, and should appeal to thoseinterested in animal ethics, in animal shelter work, and in normative ethics generally.

This edited volume explores the ethical issues involved with work in animal shelters. In the first half of the book, the contributors, in consultation with animal shelter staff, explore the ethical dilemmas that often arise in animal shelter work. The second half of the book investigates those dilemmas more deeply and identifies the moral issues that underlie them. This project was developed in conjunction with the Montreal SPCA, and should appeal to thoseinterested in animal ethics, in animal shelter work, and in normative ethics generally.

Sôphrosunê, the canonical Greek virtue perhaps best reflected in the English term "self-discipline," is little remembered today, but during the generations around Socrates it was the object of significant debate-about its scope, its feel, its practical manifestations, and its value. Christopher Moore show that classical Greek thinkers judged it more fundamental than mere desire-management or temperance: they saw it as the virtue ofagency, the capacity to be a person truly responsible for his or her actions. This was the capacity to be guided by what's best, and to count, finally, as a coherent and unified "self."

Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have some of the most celebrated religious thinkers. This volume comprises 24 scholarly studies that detail challenges to the dominant anthropocentrism of most religious traditions.

Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have some of the most celebrated religious thinkers. This volume comprises 24 scholarly studies that detail challenges to the dominant anthropocentrism of most religious traditions.